Introduction

You can use the haproxy ingress block traffic action to block all traffic to specific HTTP path / HTTP Method / HTTP Headers in the ingress controller and give back specific http status. This is useful for testing how your application behaves when specific endpoints are not reachable.

Use Cases

• Understand how your services behave under network outages

Usage

You can apply multiple actions to the same ingress resource.

Rollback

The annotation made to the ingress resource will be removed automatically after the action is finished. If you want to rollback manually, you can look for the annotation haproxy-ingress.github.io/backend-config-snippet in the ingress resource and remove the parts that are surrounded by # BEGIN STEADYBIT - and # END STEADYBIT -. The steadybit parts in the annotation will be removed automatically after the action is finished.

Parameters

Path Pattern, HTTP Method, and HTTP Headers are optional parameters. If you do not set them, nothing will be blocked. If you set them, all requests that match the path pattern, HTTP method, and HTTP headers will be blocked.

Name	Required	Description
Duration	true	How long should the traffic be affected?
Status Code	true	The HTTP status code to return when the path is blocked.
Path Pattern	false	A regex pattern to match the paths to block.
HTTP Method	false	A http method to match the requests to block. * is used as not set.
HTTP Headers	false	A list of HTTP headers to match the requests to block. Value is a regex pattern. If multiple headers are set, all of them must match.